﻿XXXII 
  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR 
  

  

  .Mr. 
  Charles 
  C. 
  Royce 
  resigned 
  his 
  connection 
  with 
  tlie 
  

   Bureau 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  thereby 
  delaying 
  the 
  

   completion 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  primal 
  title 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   tribes 
  to 
  lands 
  within 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  

   procuring 
  their 
  relinquishment, 
  the 
  scope 
  and 
  value 
  of 
  which 
  

   have 
  before 
  been 
  explained. 
  Mr. 
  Royce, 
  before 
  his 
  departure 
  

   from 
  Washington, 
  completed 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  "Cherokee 
  Nation 
  

   of 
  Indians," 
  which 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  Fifth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  II. 
  ( 
  !. 
  Yarrow 
  was 
  still 
  engaged 
  in 
  preparing 
  the 
  mate- 
  

   rial 
  for 
  the 
  final 
  volume 
  upon 
  the 
  mortuary 
  customs 
  of 
  the 
  

   North 
  American 
  Indians, 
  in 
  the 
  prosecution 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  large 
  

   amount 
  of 
  information 
  received 
  and 
  obtained 
  from 
  various 
  

   sources 
  has 
  been 
  carefully 
  classified 
  and 
  arranged 
  under 
  proper 
  

   divisions, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  manuscript 
  is 
  now 
  being 
  rapidly 
  put 
  into 
  

   shape 
  for 
  publication. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Washington 
  Matthews, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Army, 
  continued 
  to 
  pre- 
  

   pare 
  for 
  publication 
  the 
  copious 
  notes 
  obtained 
  by 
  him 
  during 
  

   former 
  years 
  in 
  the 
  Navajo 
  country, 
  his 
  chief 
  work 
  being 
  upon 
  

   a 
  grammar 
  and 
  dictionary 
  of 
  the 
  Navajo 
  language. 
  He 
  also 
  

   wrote 
  several 
  papers, 
  one 
  of 
  which, 
  a 
  " 
  Chant 
  upon 
  the 
  Moun- 
  

   tains," 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Fifth 
  Annual 
  Report. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  H. 
  Holmes 
  continued 
  his 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  office 
  during 
  

   the 
  year, 
  superintending 
  the 
  illustration 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  publi- 
  

   cations 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  His 
  scientific 
  studies 
  have 
  been 
  con- 
  

   lined 
  principally 
  to 
  the 
  field 
  of 
  American 
  archeologic 
  art. 
  Two 
  

   fully 
  illustrated 
  papers 
  have 
  been 
  finished 
  and 
  have 
  appeared 
  

   in 
  the 
  Sixth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  They 
  are 
  upon 
  

   "Ancient 
  art 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  of 
  Chiriqui, 
  Colombia," 
  and 
  "A 
  

   study 
  of 
  the 
  textile 
  art 
  in 
  its 
  relations 
  to 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  

   form 
  and 
  ornament." 
  Mr. 
  Holmes 
  has, 
  in 
  addition, 
  continued 
  

   his 
  duties 
  as 
  curator 
  of 
  aboriginal 
  pottery 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Victor 
  Mindeleff, 
  when 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  field, 
  prepared 
  re- 
  

   ports 
  on 
  the 
  Tusavan 
  and 
  Cibola 
  architectural 
  groups. 
  These, 
  

   when 
  completed, 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  fully 
  illustrated 
  by 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  plans 
  

   and 
  drawings 
  now 
  being 
  prepared 
  from 
  the 
  field-notes 
  and 
  

   Other 
  material. 
  In 
  this 
  work 
  it 
  is 
  proposed 
  to 
  discuss 
  the 
  archi- 
  

  

  